dopastrange.blogg.se - The long dark revolver

The books never explicitly specify if Roland flips the cylinder out and extracts cases in one go.

Roland uses cartridges, but loads them into the gun in an unspecified way.

The stress here is on "large": they are so bespoke and ornate that "archaic" or "obsolete" does not really apply.

Roland's guns are described as unusually, strikingly large and archaic - even for regular Mid-World people who use firearms not far removed from old-timey Old West pistols and rifles.

In any case, his revolvers are of the Old West era, and seem to be conservative even for that era. These silver screen gunslingers used revolvers of the second half of 19th century, either cap-and-ball, cartridge conversion, or early cartridge ones (like Colt SAA).

Roland is modeled after iconic Old West gunslingers, as depicted in revisionist Westerns (namely, a variation on Sergio Leone's Man with No Name).

44 automatic - no such gun ever existed, but the archetype is clear, and speculations are possible to connect it to iconic semi-automatic magazine-fed pistols like Wildey Magnum or AutoMag.

Since Stephen King, sometimes on purpose, sometimes inadvertently, glosses over realistic considerations for such matters, the ammunition cannot be a pointer for identifying Roland's guns. In the books, Roland was able to purchase off-the-shelf ammunition for his guns in New York in the 1970s but their designation was fictional (Winchester. 45 bore diameter for ammunition was widespread in the 19th century, and was used by a large number of gun and ammunition manufacturers. 454 casull like this one ]įirst of all, the.

He originally wanted to present the Horn of Eld, but he lost it after The Battle of Jericho Hill.įrom the way they are usually depicted and described, they are likely twins of the Colt Single Action Army model, otherwise known as The Peacemaker or the SAA in. 45's.Ī few times in the series, Roland has referred to the guns as "the widow makers".Īs Roland had to present a sign of Arthur Eld upon entering the Dark Tower, he presented one of the sandalwood guns, which allowed him access (the other having been taken by Susannah when she left to find her own world and her own destiny). 45 caliber bullets and our world's equivalent of Roland's original bullets are Long Colt. They are described multiple times as being "comically large". The guns are extraordinarily large by the standards of modern pistols. Others believe the guns came from same Kashamin pyramid that Arthur and his sword Excalibur have been entombed in others say they were a gift from the Dark Tower.

However, there are many other legends regarding their origins, and some say the steel and sandalwood are not from Mid-World but brought from an alien world. The sandalwood grips of the gun have never lost their fragrance and near the muzzle of each gun can be seen scroll work which translates to "White", which was Arthur's dinh mark. They were made using the melted down blue-grey steel of the sword, Excalibur, and have the rose, the sign of the Eld, engraved in the side. They have been passed down through the ages from Arthur Eld himself, down to Steven Deschain and ultimately Roland Deschain. The Sandalwood Guns are the guns of a true gunslinger.